Home Messages Index
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next]
Author IndexDate IndexThread Index

Re: [News] Linux and DRM (Was: DRM Cracked (Reverse-Engineered) Again)

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

On 2006-09-14, Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
> __/ [ Tim Smith ] on Thursday 14 September 2006 01:46 \__
>
>> It wasn't cracked or reverse-engineered.  What they are doing is simply
>> taken the decrypted stream and saving it.  iTunes 7 changed the location
>> of something in memory that they had to peek at, so they had to make a
>> change for that.
>
>
> Thanks for the corrections, Tim.
>
>  
>> Note that if you want to strip the DRM from, say, a 60 minute album this
>> way, it takes 60 minutes, because what they have to do is play the whole
>> album, and grab the stream.  It would actually be faster to burn the
>> album to an audio CD-R, and then rip that.  You could do that in just a
>> few minutes.

I have used both methods. Both are appropriate given a particular situation.
With the  Eagles "hell freezes over", I used the former because of editing
format and pre-processing considerations. More detail to follow.

> This comes to prove that DRM is customer punishment that achieves merely
> nothing. A few crackers will be enough to proliferate the media via P2P.
> When you play it, it's out in the open. 

Absolutely.

 ----------------------8<-------------------

I am reminded of a program that I used to use extensively. It't called Audio
Hijack. It's for the Mac, and it can record *any* audio from *any* source.
Period. You select the source and record. It can time record as well
and by scheduled event such as weekly, both of which make it easy to
record internet feeds of favorite streaming daily content and such. The number
of features are amazing and it simply can grab anything you want. I used
it alot for recording of internet radio stations. It includes quite well designed
and simple to use editing controls, and has a system of inline plugins that
allow you to graphically drag and drop the filter and/or processor in any order
in the input output stage. I bought it for one simple reason. I purchased the
Eagles "hell freezes over" concert on DVD, and discovered that you had to purchase
a seperate CD if you wanted just the music.

Like hell.

I found Audio Hijack quite a bit before this and used it's free version. But
I never really had any need for it, and never bought it. I do now, thinks I.
I down loaded it and registered it which I was willing to do because the purchase
price wasn't overly high. I could have taken that money and bought the CD, but
I shouldn't have too and it pissed me off. The least they could have done is enclose
a coupon for a significant discount on the CD. The DVD was a new release at the time
and my wallet wasn't in too good a mood that day. I took out the DVD and dropped it
into the Mac and fired up Hijack. I got a cup of coffee and set up some inline
filters and DSP's.

And I went to work such as it was.

It was a lazy mans dream. Hijack went on it's merry way pre-processing the source
and recording it's little heart out. I sipped my coffee and watched the waveforms
move across the screen while I listened to the music. When I was done, I went into
the editor, sliced the songs apart and added a two second delay between songs, and
burned it to CD with Itunes (which I got kind of a giggle out of).

End of that story. Short conclusion Anecdote:

I had always heard good things about Pink Floyd's "Dark side of the moon" but never
had bought it. As a Floyd fan, I decided it was high time to experience what has
come to be considered their best work. Now what happened next bears a short
burst of historical info. Perhaps some of you can relate to slot load CD players
and their main weakness. I have one in my truck and it's very stable, no motion
skipping. After a while it starts skipping. Why? Because the slot loader grabs
the CD with a cushioned bar when it loads or ejects the CD. "So what?", says you.
I was hoping you would ask. The bar leaves little straight lines across the CD
surface after prolonged playing. CD player no like lines on CD.

I never play originals in my truck. I always make copies. I Don't loan or give
those copies to others because it's not right to do that. I never have. It's
called fair use. The RIAA calls it piracy. Up yours RIAA.

So on to the point: The Dark side of the moon CD didn't want to be copied
outright. It failed cloning. Frankly I don't care why but It wasn't coincidental.
And it didn't matter. It was an annoyance at best. I used Grip to rip the tracks
to OGG and then burned the tracks to CD. Just as well. I added the whole CD via
OGG files to my burned DVD audio collection. Oh, and I didn't have to buy any
software to do it (it didn't require Hijack). Funny, that. Gee, come to think of
it, that's because all the software came with the Fedora Core Linux installation.

This is just one more reason i love Linux. I can do things with Linux that windows
users can't believe is *possible* if you aren't an expert, when they believe it
 _can_ be done at all. Like strip DRM, and/or circumvent the greedy SOB's that
try to extort as much money from the public as possible whether it's ethical or
not.


As a side note I had previously converted my whole Itunes library to OGG and
walked it across the room to the Linux box which was fortuitous when my
OSX installation, projectile vomited on me and I lost all the files on OS
reinstall.

Regards,

Mathew
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.2.7 (GNU/Linux)

iD8DBQFFDGQVlkJ5K/IU2ToRAucNAJ40s34abNWMhFaz++9bvauNqX55VgCgk3qC
JlTG2FFeD5ONgYyfs+feMFs=
=3PwU
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

-- 
"Always do the right thing: It will delight /  Aluminum Foil Deflector Beanies  
some and astound the rest" - Mark Twain    / Psychotronic protection, low prices


[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next]
Author IndexDate IndexThread Index